Victor Pelevin’s novella “Prince Gosplan,” featuring elements of cyberpunk, performed by Dmitry Bykov.
Alexander Lapin is a programmer from one of the government institutions of the late Soviet era, who is into the computer game Prince of Persia and identifies himself with one of its unnamed characters. The main hero is tormented by a question: what is the purpose of his life—does it exist, is it real—or is everything he sees just what the monitor shows him?
The audiobook also includes a lecture—a fascinating story by Dmitry Bykov about the book he has just read.